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so today I have a test that's very interesting to me because I copy a lot of data around so what I have here is my little chart that I'm gonna make and I'm going to be looking at the performance of various USB chipsets and various drive solutions so I have three different solutions that I'm going to be using the first of which you can see here is I'm going to do a oh did I sprite one terabyte oh boy it's been a long day already guys these are all what you know what let's just yeah these are all one gigabyte file copies okay so the first solution is a USB 3 seagate goflex adapter plugged into a patriot wildfire drive so this is one of the highest performance drive it it's pretty much the highest performance drive on the market so we're going to see what kind of thorough put we can get using that next we have a seagate freeagent goflex is a 5400 RPM storage shed this is also hooked up to a USB 3 chipset here at the back the one I have here is the native a 75 chipset 1 i'm going to compare that against the as media one which based on that it's just started turning up and it's on masseuse board i'm guessing it's our own kind of custom thing and it's probably going to turn up on other asuste boards in the future so the performance may be relevant i'm also going to test against the ever-popular ren assess so this is on some of the higher end boards particularly they used to be NEC usb3 chipsets so you can see I've got one here on these e68 a GD 80 and finally I'm going to test against us be too so I'm going to test against Intel's USB to controller just because it's a much more known quantity than the one on this a 75 chipset the last drive configuration I'm going to test is the mishkan ventura pro this is a USB 3 drive and I'm going to find out what the difference in performance is between a high-performance USB thumb drive like this an extreme performance SSD on USB 3 and a regular hard drive on USB 3 0 all these different platforms so I'll be back with results or with any abnormal findings throughout the testing here so the first round of testing on the asuste a 75 board is done so on the a75 controller accidentally brought these in the wrong box I got thirty four point five megabytes per second consistently and I'm just timing this on my iPhone while I do the transfer so I've got 29 seconds 29 seconds and 29 seconds to transform I one gigabyte file so I'm going to go ahead and assume that's a chipset limitation on large file transfers on the as media controller however I got a hundred and twenty five megabytes per second on the goflex with the Wildfire SSD so let's assume that that's pretty much the limits of what we can achieve with the this USB 3 controller and then next we have 67 megabytes per second on the one are on the muskan ventura pro remember that's the USB 3 stick and finally 50 let's call it fifty three megabytes per second on the drive with a hard drive as opposed to a solid state drive okay so what I'm going to do is I'm going to change motherboards here change platforms going to switch over to my Intel platform we're going to test the USB two for reference as well as the Menace ass controller which you can see down there somewhere right there alright well I'm done most of them so I'm just going to run my last test here and I'll talk a little bit about the results that I've seen so far while it's running so yeah it's not sophisticated but yes this is actually how I'm testing and I press stop when it's done transferring so here we go so I've tested the NEC Renesys however you pronounce that I have no idea controller you can see that okay a few things become fairly apparent right off the bat here number one is that the wildfire is not a bottleneck for any of these interfaces I mean we're we're not even seeing anywhere near the limit of what that thing is capable of doing next is that the Venturer pro seems to max out around there we go it's done so that took Oh surprise surprise 37 so that'll be around 27 megabytes per second okay so these are all in megabytes per second okay so the venture of pro is limited to 67 megabytes per second because you can see these two controllers are both capable of higher numbers up to 125 or 111 megabytes per second with the goflex interface on the Wildfire drive okay down here you can see that with the mechanical drive we don't see any higher than these are both 53 megabytes per second and we can also see that the a75 USB 3 controller is bottlenecking pretty much every solution here the USB 2 controller performs consistently with all of them because once again it is the bottleneck not the drives themselves and the Renaissance one that appears to be the limit because we see that the goflex wildfire performs better on the as media controller so that as media controller is actually looking pretty darn good my results are not scientific and they are not accurate to within point 01 of a megabyte per second these are all approximate numbers so take them with a grain of salt but there you have it the Renaissance controller is approximately four times faster than USB to the as media controller is about another miam you know ten percent faster than that and then the a75 controller seems to bring up the rear here as far as the USB three controllers go so thank you for checking out my video don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos